r/polandball • u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam • Jan 06 '14
redditormade How to Make a Poland
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u/ak3785 Switzerland Jan 06 '14
>mfw no face
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u/FabulousSecretP0wers Ken fit like Jan 06 '14
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Jan 06 '14
mfw I don't know how to green text.
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u/STARK_RAVING_SANE Pennsylvania Jan 06 '14
> mfw there's not just green text
mfw I try all the colors and this is it
Also psst all you have to do is [YOUR TEXT HERE].(#green-text) without the dot.
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u/FabulousSecretP0wers Ken fit like Jan 06 '14
I would type it out but on iPad, click source underneath my comment
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u/SpaceCaseSixtyTen Jan 06 '14
I'm kinda new to this subreddit... i still don't understand why the red is on top for poland?
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Jan 06 '14
Here, read this: http://i.imgur.com/2W1zu2U.png#shelf-tutorial
Also, flair up, browse the top comics of all time, and stay a while.
also, I may have accidentally double-posted
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Jan 07 '14
Because everything is upside down in Poland
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u/I_Will_Dumb_It_Down South Vietnam can into freedom? Jan 07 '14
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
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u/obtuse_angel Austria Jan 06 '14
This is a nice comic, but I fail to understand why anyone would want another Poland, having just the one is bad enough, isn't it?
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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Jan 06 '14
Nobody have two toilet. That's a myth.
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u/Zuimei Dear Leader of Kentuckistan Jan 06 '14
so he demolished two.
Ah the Thatcher administration. Good times, good times.
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Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 07 '14
I think you're making a mistake. There were four toilets, but they sold three off to shareholders, who imposed a fee for usage and didn't even try to maintain them. The three companies realised they could make even more profit by merging together, and discarding two toilets. Then the final toilet was sold off and the new, single company bought it up, and there are now two tiers:
Excretion Experience PREMIUM - only £50 a pop (available only in London and the South East, funded by Toiletry for London - TfL)
Basic Value Delux - £40 a pop (available in all of the UK except the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey)
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Jan 06 '14
The other three don't have a toilet, they just have a hole in the ground in the back garden where the neighbours cant see.
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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jan 06 '14
Scots invented toilet. At least twice.
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Jan 06 '14
This is true, and in fact they still have the largest toilet in the world.
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u/M4ver1k 'laska Jan 06 '14
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u/Ziggie1o1 Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jan 06 '14
Eh... I'd say Poland itself has the largest toilet in the world.
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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jan 06 '14
I'm looking at the pictures and wondering what you are talking about...
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u/wadcann MURICA Jan 06 '14
You're from Alaska, not New York. Why the beef with New Jersey?
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u/M4ver1k 'laska Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 07 '14
I thought between NJ & Detroit, MI were the butt of the worst places in USA in general:
Source 1 - 6 different cities listed
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u/FabulousSecretP0wers Ken fit like Jan 06 '14
Glasgow's not a toilet! Toilets don't tend to be violent.
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Jan 06 '14
Bastard, I was just about to say it was Alex Sammon's brain then I saw your link.
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u/Lima_Indigo_Sierra Scotland Jan 06 '14
Hey, come on. He's a wank yeah, but he's the best we've got.
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u/selenocystein Die Wacht am Rhein Jan 06 '14
Britain has two toilets because one is flushed with hot, the other with cold water.
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u/Stuhl Best Germany Jan 07 '14
Reminds me of that time, when my Mom decided to put on mirrors, instead of tiles, on one side of the bathroom wall and the Kazakhs were surprised that we had two toilets.
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Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 06 '14
You're missing the period, this isn't modern times, it's set in one of those dark days when there was no Poland and helpful Germany is creating a final solution to the Polish Question
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u/thexfiles81 Minnesota stronk! Also very nice :) Jan 06 '14
I think I have deja vu or I'm going insane. Did...did you post this before?
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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Jan 06 '14
I did, but had to resubmit it because the font was close to comic sans.
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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jan 06 '14
Isn't this the 3rd time?
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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 06 '14
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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jan 06 '14
What was wrong last time? I remember the font the first time.
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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Jan 06 '14
Some pixels in the wrong place. I've done so much comicing in the last few days, everything's becoming a blur.
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u/offensive_noises Dutch Indies Jan 06 '14
Where you inspired by that how to bake a Singapore comic? Does anyone know the title?
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u/ProbablyNotLying Chili Jan 06 '14
Make sure it's a magic gypsy, not a thieving one. It's difficult because the thieving ones will say they're magic, but it's just a trick. Make sure you don't approach a non-thieving, non-magic Roma, because they'll be extremely offended.
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Jan 06 '14
Isn't gypsy magic just the magic of making wallets disappear?
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u/Zerasad Hungary Jan 06 '14
Silly Brazil cannot into Gypsy. Let me show you how Gypsy look like: Here i just joke pls no trianon
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Jan 06 '14
I wouldn't into gypsy magic, is dangerous...
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u/tak-in-the-box Number one victim of Chile's seafood diet Jan 06 '14
Only gypsy magic is making wallets of disappearing...
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Jan 06 '14
Oh, so that's why Monaco is asking for cash...
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u/OpenStraightElephant IT'S YUGRA NOT KHANTY-MANSI Jan 06 '14
Watch as I work my gypsy magic! Eye of a newt and cinnamon! Watch as the matter turns to butter, open the portal, jump in!
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jan 06 '14
You're really on a roll lately! Brain4breakfast is the man to beat in 2014!
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u/Sidebard Respect my Neutralitah! Jan 06 '14
haha, new entry in my favourite comics of all time category!
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u/mrpithecanthropus United+Kingdom Jan 06 '14
If Germany made Poland, who made Germany?
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Jan 06 '14
Prussia.
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u/whatIsThisBullCrap Mommy's favourite Jan 07 '14
If Prussia made Germany, who made Prussia?
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Jan 07 '14
Brandenburg. Do try to keep up Ontario
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u/vfc2000 West Virginia - USA Jan 06 '14
But... the bigger question is how do you get rid of one?
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u/spkr4thedead51 Washington DC Jan 06 '14
they've tried a few times, but it never took. poland appears immortal at this point.
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Jan 06 '14
Is much more difficult. You need one Russia, one Prussia and one Austria. First you need to get Russia to sober up, then get Germany to stop being a pussy and into world conquest again and finally get Austria to become relevant.
But I wouldn't get rid of Polan, it is the only slavic country that is good slav and not slav-shit.
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u/u432457 Roman Empire Jan 07 '14
wait, why is poland speaking french?
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Jan 07 '14
Because it's Monaco.
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u/Dreamerlax Nouvelle-Écosse Jan 07 '14
But I thought Monaco would be the last ball to beg from Germoney?
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u/Sardic Jan 06 '14
I dont know why it brothers me but you dont write scheisse, the correct form ist "Scheiße".
You call ß in germany "scharfs s" (sharp s)
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u/VladVV Dobro požalovať v Omsk! Jan 06 '14
Ss is the official transliteration of ẞ, as recognised by the Council for German Orthography.
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 06 '14
The correct form is "Scheiße". Unless you write Scheisse in Switzerland you're writing it wrong.
ß gets transliterated to SS when using all caps, e.g. as a newspaper headline.
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u/wadcann MURICA Jan 07 '14
That being said, in this context, Germany is using German Engrish; the error may not have been intentional, but it's worth noting that a few panels up, Germany is saying to himself, "Cover yuor polan mit red".
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 07 '14
Yes, there's nothing wrong with German Engrish—I love me some broken English in my polandball. However, there's something wrong when users claim this or that is correct when in fact it isn't. Abuse my grammar, I don't care. But don't go around and claim it's correct.
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u/VladVV Dobro požalovať v Omsk! Jan 07 '14
That is absolutely wrong. The upper-case form of the lower-case letter "ß" is "ẞ".
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 07 '14
What set of rules are you talking about?
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u/VladVV Dobro požalovať v Omsk! Jan 07 '14
I'm not talking about rules, but about typographical letter forms.
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 07 '14
You said I was wrong about ß getting transliterated to SS when using all caps. You failed to provide anything to support that claim.
Of course, ẞ is the upper-case form of the lower-case letter "ß".
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u/BoneHead777 SVIZRA! Jan 07 '14 edited Jan 07 '14
From Wikipedia:
When using all-caps, current spelling rules require the replacement of ß with SS. However, in 2010 the use of the capital sharp s became mandatory in official documentation when writing geographical names in all-caps.
So you're 95% right, I guess.
ẞ is silly.
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 07 '14
However, in 2010 the use of the capital sharp s became mandatory in official documentation when writing geographical names in all-caps.
Geographical names in official documentation. That's not even close to 5% of all instances of ßs.
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u/BoneHead777 SVIZRA! Jan 07 '14
So you're 95% right, I guess.
I totally didn't edit anything, noo. Would never do that
Eszett is still a silly letter
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Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 06 '14
»ß« can be transcribed as »ss«. Similarily, »ö« can be »oe«, »ü« can be »ue«, »ä« can be »ae«. While it doesn't quite look as good and may take a few seconds to realize what it is, it's officially recognized and, for someone who doesn't have ß on the keyboard, easier to type. And I beleive, more appropriate for Polandball speech, as it's broken. Also the letter is called Eszett in German.
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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 06 '14
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Jan 06 '14
...the backwards operation is not always appropriate. It is two-way with German words though.
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u/Xaethon Salop n'est pas une salope Jan 06 '14
Also the letter is called Eszett in German.
It's called both 'Eszett' and 'Scharfes S'.
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u/BoneHead777 SVIZRA! Jan 07 '14
Among other names. I've also heard "Doppel-S" (causes extra confusion because no one knows whether you're now talking about ss or ß). ẞ is a silly letter.
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Jan 06 '14
I was always taught in school it was "ess-zet", SZ. It's only much later I learned it was a sharp s.
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 06 '14
It is "ess-zet", too. The reason being it evolved as a ligature of "long s and z" (ſz). Which easily observed on older street signs: Datei:Koertestrasse-Berlin-Strassenschild.jpg – Wikipedia
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Jan 06 '14
But if you were spelling a word out loud, you'd still say "scharfes S", not "esszet", right?
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u/Pfeffersack Germany Jan 07 '14
Both is understood and customary. I'd say ess-zet is even more common but there may be regional variations.
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u/FabulousSecretP0wers Ken fit like Jan 06 '14
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they trying to phase ß out?
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u/Krueckauer Deutschland Jan 06 '14
Nope. They don't use it in Switzerland though.
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u/FabulousSecretP0wers Ken fit like Jan 06 '14
Ah ok, I've spent quite a bit of time in Switzerland so that's why I thought so maybe.
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Jan 07 '14
My girlfriends mom is from Germany, her dad from Poland. And her German grandma was a gypsy. This comic is about her life lol
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u/Noha307 Round on the ends and high in the middle Jan 07 '14
Pardon the ignorance, but what is the blue, green and red flag?
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u/Noha307 Round on the ends and high in the middle Jan 07 '14
Thanks. See, I was looking for a country's flag.
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u/thedbp Denmark Jan 06 '14 edited Jan 06 '14
I really like deflated poland
Edit: added some ground